dotfiles

Linux Configuration Dotfiles

REFERENCE

• https://www.ackama.com/what-we-think/the-best-way-to-store-your-dotfiles-a-bare-git-repository-explained/
• https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/dotfiles

To INSTALL on a new system

-j8 is an optional performance optimization that became available in version 2.8, and fetches up to 8 submodules at a time in parallel

git clone --recurse-submodules -j8 --bare https://github.com/djarbz/dotfiles.git $HOME/.dotfiles
#git --git-dir=$HOME/.dotfiles/ --work-tree=$HOME config --local status.showUntrackedFiles no
git --git-dir=$HOME/.dotfiles/ --work-tree=$HOME checkout

Add the following to .bashrc to auto-load our scripts.

# Start or resume a Tmux session
if [ -x "$(command -v tmux)" ] && [ -z "${TMUX}" ]; then
  exec tmux new-session -A -s ${USER} >/dev/null 2>&1
fi

# User specific aliases and functions
if [ -d ~/.bashrc.d ]; then
  for rc in ~/.bashrc.d/*; do
    if [ -f "$rc" ]; then
      . "$rc"
    fi
  done
fi

unset rc

On systems like TrueNAS, you need to create a .profile file.

if [ -n "$BASH_VERSION" ]; then
  # include .bashrc if it exists
  if [ -f "$HOME/.bashrc" ]; then
    . "$HOME/.bashrc"
  fi
fi

To ADD additional files/folders

dotfiles status
dotfiles add <filepath>
# Do not use -m as you will be prompted with a commit message template
dotfiles commit
# Update the $HOME/.dotfiles/config url to the ssh url
# Add the ssh public key to github
dotfiles push

To UPDATE changes from the server

dotfiles pull